Giovanni Martino Cesare I: 'La Hieronyma' from Musicali
Melodie, 1621
Tim Dowling - Trombone
David McIntosh - Organ
'La Hieronyma' is the third of twenty-eight vocal and instrumental numbers
published by Henricus in Munich in 1621 under the title 'Musicale Melodie'.
Included are three solos, eight duets, six trios, nine quartets, one quintet
and one sextet. Individual titles are printed in Sartori's 'Bibliografia
della musica strumentale italiana stampata in Italia fine at 1700'.
Little is known of the composer. Eitner uses the German spelling of his
name, Johann Martin Caesar(ius) I (Cesare) in his 'Biographisch-bibliographischas
Quellen lexicon der Musiker und Musikgelehrten'. According to Eitner,
Cesare was a cornetto player in the Bavarian Court Band in 1612. Apparently
'Musicale Melodie' was his major work. Sartori identifies 'La Hieronyma'
as a trombone or viola solo.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Sonata in F minor
Tim Dowling - Trombone
David McIntosh - Organ
Telemann was born in Magdeburg and died in Hamburg aged 86 years. He held
a large number of posts as Kapellmeister and as church music director,
and in his own day ranked very high as a composer, being one of the most
fluent, versatile and prolific who ever lived (eg. forty settings of the
Passion, forty operas, six hundred overtures). Telemann received no regular
musical training but by diligently studying the scores of the great masters
- he mentions in particular Lully and Campra - made himself conversant
with the science of music. He is a prominent representative of the Hamburg
school in its prime during the first half of the 18th century.

J. J Quantz (1697-1773): Trio Sonata in C major
Karin Messerle - Flute
Kate Conigrave - Violin
Helen Evers - Cello
David McIntosh - harpsichord
Quantz was born near Gottingen and died at Potsdam aged 76 years. He was
a mighty flute player and flute composer before that other ardent practitioner,
Frederick the Great, in whose service he remained for over thirty years.

Far are the shades of Arabia
Where the princes ride at noon,
'Slid the verduous vales and thickets
Under the ghost of the moon;
And so dark is that vaulted purple
Flowers in the forest rise
And toss into blossom 'gainst the phantom stars
Pale in the noonday skies.

Sweet is the music of Arabia
In my heart when out of dreams
I still in the thin clear mirk of dawn
Descry her gliding streams
Hear her strange lutes on the stream banks
Ring loud with grief and delight
Of the dim-silked, dark-haired Musicians
In the brooding silence of the night.

They haunt me - her lutes and her forests;
No beauty on earth I see
But shadowed with that dream recalls
Her loveliness to me:
Still eyes look coldly on me,
Cold voices whisper and say
'He is crazed with the spell of far Arabia,
They have stolen his wits away.

Johann Christian Bach was the youngest son of J. S.
Bach and Ann Magdalena Bach. After his father's death he went to Berlin,
then to Italy in 1756 and England in 1762. Here he became music-master
to the Queen and performed there with Mozart in 1764.

This suite was written for the American virtuoso organist
Virgil Fox. It is arguably Young's best work and is useful in demonstrating
the full range of the effects of the organ. Often recorded, a fascinating
version is available on the 1857 instrument in the Oude Kerk in Delft
played by Feike Asma.

Johann Pachelbel was a German organist and composer,
father of Wilhelm, Johann occupied the post of organist at Altdorf, Ratisbon,
Vienna, Eisenach, Erfurt, Stuttgart and Gotha before being appointed to
St. Sebaldus Church at Nuremberg in 1695. His importance in the history
of music is due to the fact that he was one of the spiritual ancestors
of Bach.

The first performance was given by Susan Heath, on 29
April 1990, Wesminster Abbey, London. The work was specially composed
for Susan and Andrew Downey's first child born 10 August 1989.

Moneta Eagles: Quasi Fanfare from Two Preludes for Organ
David McIntosh: Organ

The first performance was given by Dr Vincent Sheppard
in an "Australia Day" Organ Recital, broadcast by the Australian
Broadcasting Commission from the Great Hall, University of Sydney, on
25th January 1955.

O Greenest branch, hail,
Who have sprung forth
In the light breeze of invocation
From Holy Beings.

When the time has come
That you aveh flowered on your branch,
A hail, a hail there will be to you
Because the heat of the sun
Has moistened you
Like the fragrance of balsam.

For within you the beautiful flower
Has blossomed,
Which gave its perfume to all the spices
Which were dried,
All all those have appeared
In their abundant greenness.

Whence the heavens have rained dew
Upon the grass
And the whole Earth was made joyful,
Because her womb has brought forth corn
And the winged creatures of Heaven
Have their dwelling places in it.

Thereupon a feast was prepared for Mankind
And there was great delight in those partaking.
Whence, o sweet virgin,
No one delight in you was found wanting.
All these things Eve valued as little.
Now, nevertheless, let there be praise in the Highest.

St Hildegard von Bingen was born of a noble family.
She joined the Benedictine community in 1116 and became Abbess in 1136.
She was a medical doctor, pharmacist, playwright, poet, painter, musician
and visionary, and was the grandmother of the Rhineland mystics. In the
same league as Dam Julian of Norwich and St Francis of Assissi, she had
an ecological view of the world based on micr/macro cosmic psychology.
She dictated "Scivias" between 1141 and 1151 consisting of 3
books of 26 visions including the vices of the world and enigmatic prophecies
of disaster. She was canonised in the 15th century.

Dr Graeme Rawson: Organ

Most of the following pieces were chosen with the romantic
nature of this organ in mind. As it contains a high proportion of 8' (unison
pitch) stops it is unsuited to music requiring great clarity of texture
such as fugues and other sprightly contrapuntal works.

Young was born in Kansas and studied with Joseph Bonnet,
the organist of St. Eustache in Paris. A prolific organ and choral composer,
his music is essentially 'popular' drawing on tunes ' in the air' for
thematic material.

Sweelinck is undoubtedly the most important Dutch composer.
As his pupils included most of the famous organists of the North German
School of the seventh century, his influence on Bach and Handel can be
traced.

Louis Vierne (1870-1937): Berceuse
Graeme Rawson: Organ

Appointed organist of Notre Dame Cathedral in 1900,
he died at its console during his 1,750th recital. His music is melodically
imaginative, elegant, full of harmonic detail and reflects a profound
mysticism. He was arch-priest of the French romantic symphonic school.
This gentle piece is dedicated to his daughter Collette.

Soler was a Spanish composer, monk of the Order of St.
Jerome and organist and choir-master to the royal monastery at the Escorial.
He was a pupil of Domenico Scarlatti.
Graeme Rawson: Harpsichord
David McIntosh: Organ

The organ in the chapel of the Convent of the Good Samaritan,
St Scholastica's, Glebe, was designed by Revd. Fr. Stephen Moreno, O.
S. B., New Norcia, Western Australia, who ordered the pipes, stops, etc
and came personally to see it. Hill, Norman and Beard were the builders.
Dom Moreno had completed his musical studies in Germany under Walter Braunfels
(a former student of Brahms and Bruckner).